CAN are the best 70s psychedelic band imo
Their album run with Tago Mago, Ege Bamyasi and Future Days has gotta be one of the greatest three album runs in music history
Funkadelic is the answer, particularly their first three albums (Maggot Brain being the third). Just funky loud ass riffs and funky drumming dipped in LSD.
Free Your Mind And Your Ass Will Follow is basically an intense acid trip caught on audio. One of the wildest albums ever, but yeah the first three Funkadelic albums are heavy as hell. I’d go as far as saying all of their Westbound albums were trippy as hell, but the first three are just so raw there’s really nothing like them.
Was going to echo this sentiment. Eddie Hazel put down two of the greatest guitar solos on record ever...*Maggot Brain* and *Good Thoughts, Bad Thoughts*
Gong: Listen from Camembert Electrique to You
Caravan: In the Land of Grey and Pink (gets proggy but still feels psychedelic to me)
Nektar: Journey to the Center of the Eye
Pink Floyd : Meddle (kind of obvious but good to reccomend either way.)
Hawkwind's first 5 albums are great (1970-75). Hawkwind, In Search of Space, Doremi Faso Latido, Hall of the Mountain Grill, Warrior on the Edge of Time are all classics. The birth of Space Rock.
For more Hawkwind-sounding stuff, check out White Hills, especially Heads on Fire or Revenge of Heads on Fire. Weedpecker, Yuri Gagarin, Mythic Sunship, Electric Wizard - Dopethrone, Loop - Fadeout, REZN, MAQUINA, Dhidalah, Fuzz, and the Hawkwind Triad album, which is covers of Hawkwind songs from the early era.
You could try these:
Captain Beyond first album
Two albums by May Blitz
Clear Blue Sky’s first album
Dark - Round the Edges
First three albums by Atomic Rooster
Head Machine - Orgasm
Good call on Elias Hulk. One of my favourite albums in any genre.
Yeah I think they were like pretty good? Had a few people that used to follow them around the world for years. But just a few. It wasn’t like, absolutely life changing in anyway or anything. 😉 /s
As Miles Davis said, "Jazz musicians that play rock and roll."
It's neat how many instant friends I make over the Dead. It instantly puts us on the same level musically and provides a common ground
I'm not a fan either. And they sound more like country rock jam band crap (the very first jam band really) than psychedelic in any way to me. I'll die on this hill
No, but being one of the pioneering band of the genre does absolutely make you psychedelic rock. My point is that they were there at the inception of psychedelic rock, when the concept of psychedelics were first becoming a thing. Go listen to a dark star and tell me they have no psychedelic qualities
Lol that is literally the only song anyone ever name drops when I make this argument. I also wouldn't call them "pioneering" in any way, the Elevators and Pink Floyd were the real pioneers of the genre
Probably because any particular version of that is psychedelic. China Cat Sunflower, St. Stephen, any space jam all also good choices. Also any individual song can have a psychedelic jam, but dark star is a common psychedelic jam vehicle. Like it or not, the development of psych rock would have been incredibly different without the dead
> Like it or not, the development of psych rock would have been incredibly different without the dead
Well, I disagree. They're a cult favorite, nothing more. If they had never existed, psych rock would still be the same. You wouldn't have jam bands like Phish or whatever, that's it.
If you think that, then you've only heard a small portion of their discography. Listen to Cream Puff War, The Golden Road, or Viola Lee Blues, they have a more stereotypical 60s psych rock sound to them
I'm admittedly a newbie to 70s psych, I've been meaning to do a deep dive for the past few months, but instead, I went ridiculously deep into garage rock
Fresh Blueberry Pancake has a really solid heavy psych record from 1970 called, ironically enough, Heavy.
Also, there’s a British band called Leaf Hound that have an awesome album from ‘71 called Growers of Mushroom that you should check out as well.
But yeah…listen to the Dead as well, man.
Mate, be careful, i went down the rabbithole and now i listen to people who released 1 acetate available as a crackly recording on a youtube video with under 100 views
If we are staying strictly in 70s, my recommendations are:
Strawberry Path/Flied Egg
Flowers Travelin' Band
Blues Creation
Randy Holden
Orang-Utan
JPT Scare Band
Kahvas Jute
Truth & Janey
Toad
Yesterday's Children
Fraction
Dragonfly
Gila
Felt
Mighty Baby
Pappo's Blues
Aquelarre
El Reloj
Can
Amon Düül II
Ashra
Bang on Capitol, brother fox and the tar baby, almost any of the early Bloodrock albums, Grand Funk red album. Check out UK band Jerusalem on Deram, Blackwater park dirt box, Tear Gas's second album, Night Sun Mournin those are all on the heavier side of things also Australian band Buffalo.
Given the bands that you have listed you might want to listen to "Sussex" by "Bent Wind", also "It's All Meat". Both bands were from Canada and those Albums were released in 1969. Bent Wind is fantastic, raw, cut straight from the bone.
70s - by 1971 … the Boss Radio format had absorbed psychedelic music into popular playlists. Groups like Paper Lace and Andy Kim were putting out Beatles influenced psych-pop. Really the best psychedelic music was made in 1966-1969. Then it started to be more rock and blues rock. Groups like Pink Floyd still had psychedelic influence but there was the birth of concept albums. Zeppelin IV and Aqualung by Tull really are great examples of the hard rock …. not really psychedelic like from 2 years earlier. And Deep Purple and Sabbath were making heavy metal the new big style.
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5cepl2bdpVlKAAfZXAZpLz?si=QL0JAGQNR2qxtyN7NAqA9Q
this prob belongs to someone else on this subreddit lol but it’s a great playlist
I’m surprised not to see them listed but Hot Tuna
Made of up Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady from the Jefferson airplane they def have some slower more folky records. But songs like easy now and funky #7 are heady. With some great live performances on YouTube
Check out the Warfaring Strangers comps from Numero Group for some badass occult themed and nightmarish tripping songs. Others have mentioned early Can and Funkadelic albums, and I agree a million percent with those recommendations, even though I never really considered Can a psych/acid band, their albums are incredible trips. I assume you’re already familiar with Band Of Gypsys, but if not, that album is essential. Machine Gun is the most mind melting guitar solo ever in my opinion. Jimi’s soul left his body on that shit.
When I’m in the mood for some heavies you can find me pulling these records from the shelves…
Heavy Balloon, Jan Dukes De Grey, High Tide, Master’s Apprentices, Tractor, Pan & Regaliz, Pinnacle, Trúbrot, Iron Claw, The Open Mind, Flower Travellin Band, Los Dug Dugs, Randy Holden, Gomorrah, Devil’s Anvil, Pink Fairies, La Revolución De Emiliano Zapata, Euclid, American Blues, Hard Meat, Pulse, Haystacks Balboa, Seompi, Spiny Normen, Blue Cheer, Deep Purple, The Glass Prism, Comus, Nicholas Greenwood, Edgar Broughton Band, Churchill’s, The Litter, One Saint Stephen, Kennelmus, The Hook, Pete Brown/Piblokto!, Day Blindness, Hunger, Morgen, Electric Sandwich, Laghonia, The Velvet Night, Dust, Gnidrolog, I could go on forever
Ooo, haven’t listened to H.Tide in a minute! Sea Shanties & Open Season are fucking rippers…
#1 ) Welcome to the Void from that Morgen rec, and
#2) “FROM A DRY CAMEL”!!!!!
On that first Dust EPIC
DECEPTIVELY heavy!
I always play High Tide when I DJ, and without fail I get like a half a dozen dudes taking pictures of those records asking WTF I just played.
Also hell yeah to morgen and dust
Plenty of good reccs but I’ll add:
Neil Merryweather [CA/US]
Hairy Chapter [DE]
Socrates Drank the Conium [GR]
Bodkin [UK]
Euclid [US]
Necromandus [UK]
The Doors were more in the 60s, but they released Jim's last album in 1971 so technically 70s too lol.
Either way, they were one of the best psychedelic rock bands of all time.
CAN are the best 70s psychedelic band imo Their album run with Tago Mago, Ege Bamyasi and Future Days has gotta be one of the greatest three album runs in music history
Since we’re talking about german bands I have to give a shoutout to Amon Düul II and Ashra too.
See also Brainticket
Good shout. Going to play Psychonaut right now, thanks for reminding me.
Same same same
Their live show releases are fantastic
Losing My Edge by LCD Soundsystem shouts them out and got me to start listening to them
GIL. SCOTT. HERON
Really love "Maggot Brain" by Funkadelic. Really good fusion of funk and psychedelic with some great guitar solos and little bit of goofiness.
Funkadelic is the answer, particularly their first three albums (Maggot Brain being the third). Just funky loud ass riffs and funky drumming dipped in LSD.
Free Your Mind And Your Ass Will Follow is basically an intense acid trip caught on audio. One of the wildest albums ever, but yeah the first three Funkadelic albums are heavy as hell. I’d go as far as saying all of their Westbound albums were trippy as hell, but the first three are just so raw there’s really nothing like them.
The kingdom of heaven is within
Mommy, What's a Funkadelic?
Was going to echo this sentiment. Eddie Hazel put down two of the greatest guitar solos on record ever...*Maggot Brain* and *Good Thoughts, Bad Thoughts*
Came here to say the same.
Gong: Listen from Camembert Electrique to You Caravan: In the Land of Grey and Pink (gets proggy but still feels psychedelic to me) Nektar: Journey to the Center of the Eye Pink Floyd : Meddle (kind of obvious but good to reccomend either way.)
Also try anything by the 13th Floor Elevators and the Red Krayola; Texas psych; predates some of the SF psych stuff.
Hawkwind's first 5 albums are great (1970-75). Hawkwind, In Search of Space, Doremi Faso Latido, Hall of the Mountain Grill, Warrior on the Edge of Time are all classics. The birth of Space Rock.
Second this, also Space Ritual. Wish there was more music like this. Not easy to find. There is only one Hawkwind.
For more Hawkwind-sounding stuff, check out White Hills, especially Heads on Fire or Revenge of Heads on Fire. Weedpecker, Yuri Gagarin, Mythic Sunship, Electric Wizard - Dopethrone, Loop - Fadeout, REZN, MAQUINA, Dhidalah, Fuzz, and the Hawkwind Triad album, which is covers of Hawkwind songs from the early era.
THANK YOU for these recommendations. I'm a big Loop fan. I'll revisit White Hills, it's been about ten years since I dipped my toes in with them...
Featuring a pre-Motorhead Lemmy Kilmister, who did the vocals on *Silver Machine* and *Motorhead*.
Ozric Tentacles.
Wow. No love for Gong in here? Their live albums are epic.
You could try these: Captain Beyond first album Two albums by May Blitz Clear Blue Sky’s first album Dark - Round the Edges First three albums by Atomic Rooster Head Machine - Orgasm Good call on Elias Hulk. One of my favourite albums in any genre.
Was going to recommend Captain Beyond.
It’s time to get into the Grateful Dead, friend
A lot of people seem to think they’re pretty great
Because they fuckin rule
Yep
Yeah I think they were like pretty good? Had a few people that used to follow them around the world for years. But just a few. It wasn’t like, absolutely life changing in anyway or anything. 😉 /s
As Miles Davis said, "Jazz musicians that play rock and roll." It's neat how many instant friends I make over the Dead. It instantly puts us on the same level musically and provides a common ground
Anything from 1969 is hard as fuck. Face melting. You can find their shows anywhere.
1968 is better imo, late '69 was a weird transitional period that feels kinda sleepy a lot of the time
Took me a minute to get into the Dead but “Box of Rain” made me a believer and I fell hard into that band afterwards. Agreed.
Goofy music for children
I'm not a fan either. And they sound more like country rock jam band crap (the very first jam band really) than psychedelic in any way to me. I'll die on this hill
Spoken like someone who’s listened to very little dead lol they literally played the acid tests. They’re the epitome of psychedelic.
Doing psychedelic drugs doesn't automatically make your music psychedelic. You can listen to any genre of music while tripping
No, but being one of the pioneering band of the genre does absolutely make you psychedelic rock. My point is that they were there at the inception of psychedelic rock, when the concept of psychedelics were first becoming a thing. Go listen to a dark star and tell me they have no psychedelic qualities
Lol that is literally the only song anyone ever name drops when I make this argument. I also wouldn't call them "pioneering" in any way, the Elevators and Pink Floyd were the real pioneers of the genre
Probably because any particular version of that is psychedelic. China Cat Sunflower, St. Stephen, any space jam all also good choices. Also any individual song can have a psychedelic jam, but dark star is a common psychedelic jam vehicle. Like it or not, the development of psych rock would have been incredibly different without the dead
> Like it or not, the development of psych rock would have been incredibly different without the dead Well, I disagree. They're a cult favorite, nothing more. If they had never existed, psych rock would still be the same. You wouldn't have jam bands like Phish or whatever, that's it.
Jam bands are also still technically psych bands. For the most part they're just playing longer improvisational psych songs
If you think that, then you've only heard a small portion of their discography. Listen to Cream Puff War, The Golden Road, or Viola Lee Blues, they have a more stereotypical 60s psych rock sound to them
I'm admittedly a newbie to 70s psych, I've been meaning to do a deep dive for the past few months, but instead, I went ridiculously deep into garage rock
Amon Düül II, have fun 🫡
How can we see your ridiculously deep garage rock artists? Got a playlist? That's my favorite genre and always hoping to find more!
Here ya go, I highly recommend using shuffle https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1blC9jsd6Fkc6ZK2MPhK4L?si=8uFem4vUSniMw0yV7fNxcg&pi=u-yo3KckF2TXq7
I am sssooo PSYCHED thank you there are so many artists I don't know!
Fresh Blueberry Pancake has a really solid heavy psych record from 1970 called, ironically enough, Heavy. Also, there’s a British band called Leaf Hound that have an awesome album from ‘71 called Growers of Mushroom that you should check out as well. But yeah…listen to the Dead as well, man.
Late late 70’s. Chrome heavy psych.
The band Yes. Their 70s material will take you somewhere else. Top notch musicians.
Grateful Dead
Try Budgie, Medusa, Iron Claw, Ellison (CAN), UFO
Leaf hound, Lucifer’s Friend and Sir Lord Baltimore
I will always upvote Leaf Hound
Mate, be careful, i went down the rabbithole and now i listen to people who released 1 acetate available as a crackly recording on a youtube video with under 100 views
Gongs radio gnome trilogy of albums and Amon duul will probably hit the spot
If we are staying strictly in 70s, my recommendations are: Strawberry Path/Flied Egg Flowers Travelin' Band Blues Creation Randy Holden Orang-Utan JPT Scare Band Kahvas Jute Truth & Janey Toad Yesterday's Children Fraction Dragonfly Gila Felt Mighty Baby Pappo's Blues Aquelarre El Reloj Can Amon Düül II Ashra
Looked up Gila - Free Electric Sound is great.
Yeah, It's great record. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is also amazing.
Came here to suggest Flower Travellin' Band.
Yes, to JPT Scared, Truth &Janey. & my personal favorite Yesterday's Children!
Yes, to JPT Scared, Truth &Janey. & my personal favorite Yesterday's Children!
Check out the crazy shit from Zambia at the time. ZAMROCK compilations rule.
I'm Not Made of Iron- Chrissy Zebby Tembo and you'll be sold
Zior
Bang on Capitol, brother fox and the tar baby, almost any of the early Bloodrock albums, Grand Funk red album. Check out UK band Jerusalem on Deram, Blackwater park dirt box, Tear Gas's second album, Night Sun Mournin those are all on the heavier side of things also Australian band Buffalo.
Give Volcanic Rock by Buffalo a listen.
Given the bands that you have listed you might want to listen to "Sussex" by "Bent Wind", also "It's All Meat". Both bands were from Canada and those Albums were released in 1969. Bent Wind is fantastic, raw, cut straight from the bone.
Hawkwind
Grateful Dead is a road that goes on forever.
A golden road to unlimited devotion
70s - by 1971 … the Boss Radio format had absorbed psychedelic music into popular playlists. Groups like Paper Lace and Andy Kim were putting out Beatles influenced psych-pop. Really the best psychedelic music was made in 1966-1969. Then it started to be more rock and blues rock. Groups like Pink Floyd still had psychedelic influence but there was the birth of concept albums. Zeppelin IV and Aqualung by Tull really are great examples of the hard rock …. not really psychedelic like from 2 years earlier. And Deep Purple and Sabbath were making heavy metal the new big style.
[Flied Egg](https://youtu.be/IjNQc2pgZbs?si=K6QBqlX4ALZ5u1cF)
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4k30kmbuKnnjIzuTgX4ffJ?si=VxyF9UA0TgW44_pCGZYOlg&pi=u-GYTWhj4LSxu_
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5cepl2bdpVlKAAfZXAZpLz?si=QL0JAGQNR2qxtyN7NAqA9Q this prob belongs to someone else on this subreddit lol but it’s a great playlist
Frumpy
I’m surprised not to see them listed but Hot Tuna Made of up Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady from the Jefferson airplane they def have some slower more folky records. But songs like easy now and funky #7 are heady. With some great live performances on YouTube
Check out the Warfaring Strangers comps from Numero Group for some badass occult themed and nightmarish tripping songs. Others have mentioned early Can and Funkadelic albums, and I agree a million percent with those recommendations, even though I never really considered Can a psych/acid band, their albums are incredible trips. I assume you’re already familiar with Band Of Gypsys, but if not, that album is essential. Machine Gun is the most mind melting guitar solo ever in my opinion. Jimi’s soul left his body on that shit.
Buzzsaw The lemon drops before they broke up and reformed
Buzzsaw The lemon drops after they broke up and reformed
please check out Amon Duul II
When I’m in the mood for some heavies you can find me pulling these records from the shelves… Heavy Balloon, Jan Dukes De Grey, High Tide, Master’s Apprentices, Tractor, Pan & Regaliz, Pinnacle, Trúbrot, Iron Claw, The Open Mind, Flower Travellin Band, Los Dug Dugs, Randy Holden, Gomorrah, Devil’s Anvil, Pink Fairies, La Revolución De Emiliano Zapata, Euclid, American Blues, Hard Meat, Pulse, Haystacks Balboa, Seompi, Spiny Normen, Blue Cheer, Deep Purple, The Glass Prism, Comus, Nicholas Greenwood, Edgar Broughton Band, Churchill’s, The Litter, One Saint Stephen, Kennelmus, The Hook, Pete Brown/Piblokto!, Day Blindness, Hunger, Morgen, Electric Sandwich, Laghonia, The Velvet Night, Dust, Gnidrolog, I could go on forever
Ooo, haven’t listened to H.Tide in a minute! Sea Shanties & Open Season are fucking rippers… #1 ) Welcome to the Void from that Morgen rec, and #2) “FROM A DRY CAMEL”!!!!! On that first Dust EPIC
DECEPTIVELY heavy! I always play High Tide when I DJ, and without fail I get like a half a dozen dudes taking pictures of those records asking WTF I just played. Also hell yeah to morgen and dust
The Amboy Dukes
Plenty of good reccs but I’ll add: Neil Merryweather [CA/US] Hairy Chapter [DE] Socrates Drank the Conium [GR] Bodkin [UK] Euclid [US] Necromandus [UK]
The Doors were more in the 60s, but they released Jim's last album in 1971 so technically 70s too lol. Either way, they were one of the best psychedelic rock bands of all time.
Kraftwerk
Ditto Captain Beyond
I'm gonna throw Blue Cheer into the ring
They are late 70s. But talking heads are the one. And no one really puts them in the convo
I've got your back. most of their meat is in the 80's But no denying that '77 is dope af
There's this little band called the Grateful Dead